[420 Girl]

I have a heads-up for Councilman Paul Marchand regarding his no vote on the medical marijuana dispensaries.

Black market marijuana is already in Cathedral City and everywhere else, and that is exactly the problem.

The whole point of having medical marijuana dispensaries is to take the black market out of the loop and provide a safe, clean and secure environment in which patients can acquire their medicine free from fear of criminal prosecution and the threat of other dangerous illicit substances being dealt.

Marijuana in its smoked form provides fast and far more effective relief than those drugs the government prefers to provide with basically no negative side effects — unless maybe a bale of it falls on your head.

As well, the medicalization of marijuana has provided a fantastically more accurate database of how many people are using it, what they are using it for, which strains are more effective for what maladies and its long-term effects — which, by the way, are far less harmful than all drugs.

The no vote by the Cathedral City City Council is a profound statement of ignorance.

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